Eugenics Research Paper

Eugenics

The human’s natural urge to generate an ideal offspring and strive to live in some degree of a utopian society has caused man to be disheartened by the mental and/or physical disfigurations in which they possess. With this mind set and the seemingly infinite increase in intelligence of the Homo-sapiens species an innovative new pseudo-science is born; Eugenics. Eugenics is the researching of or direct belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of humans. This is done with the use of one of the two different methods. Although the people who started this interesting area of research did not know it yet, the birth of this new field of study will lead to some horrid events affecting the world and many acts of discrimination

With the novel idea pushed scientist to generate a way to rather improve the members of their respective societies opposed to the materials they own. Many other scientist hear about the plan and jump on board. The problem now is how. How to do this is a complex question; do we look for where human life messed up and attempt to change it or start in the present and begin to better manage the human race as a whole?

These two theories were questioned in depth to come to the conclusion that the first proposed would be extremely complicated and in the attempting to better manage human procreation would be more practical in contrast. So, the most basic way to go about doing this would be to start using artificial selection, as we do to breed pure blood lines in dogs, on humans and begin the process of Eugenics to weed out the

A pedigree chart is a “diagram showing the lineage or genealogy of an individual and all the direct ancestors, usually to analyze or follow the inheritance of trait” (staff). These kinds of charts can be used to accurately predict the inheritance percent of a genetic trait, more specifically for family diseases or deficiencies, across several generations of the family (staff). Pedigree Studies where first used as agricultural traditions in the process of tracking the lineage of animals, mostly domesticated, with exceptionally desirable qualities (University of Lethbridge). Using these studies helps in the selective breeding process to predict the qualities of the selected animal’s offspring (University of Lethbridge).

“While agricultural pedigree charts are used to predict simple traits like eye color or body size, eugenicists extended these ideas to ‘trace’ human qualities such as alcoholism, poverty, ‘mental defect’ and criminality, which are not regularly thought of as genetically transmitted” (University of